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Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Generic light-weight syscall.
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> Depends what people want to use it for.  I couldn't use it to time how
> long some syscall took, for example.  But if we zap the microseconds
> part on smp anyway, that's irrelevant.

useconds gets zapped in gettimeofday on SMP systems. I'm working on
trying to fix this :)

c.